Britain: Mother Arrested After Confiscating Daughters’ iPads
April 13th, 2025Via: Daily Mail:
A mother of two was left to stew in a police custody cell for more than seven hours after she confiscated two iPads belonging to her children – and was accused of theft.
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Ms Brown was searched and had custody photographs and fingerprints taken after taking away her daughters’ devices in an attempt to ensure they were not distracted from their studies.
Surrey Police, who also visited the children’s school, pulling one of Ms Brown’s daughters out of class, have since acknowledged their error. The force said they swooped after getting a report of an alleged theft from a man in his 40s.
Ms Brown was apprehended at her mother’s home in Cobham, Surrey. Officers said a tracking device showed the iPads were at the address and she was ‘detained after refusing to cooperate.’
She was eventually returned home, only after a 12-hour ordeal that, due to her bail conditions, threatened to prevent her from seeing her children on Mother’s Day.
The incident, which follows the arrest of a couple in Hertfordshire over complaints they made about their daughter’s primary school, is likely to raise further questions about police priorities.
Trump Exempts Phones, Computers, Chips from New Tariffs
April 12th, 2025What’s next? Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)?
It’s the most well-known secret on Capitol Hill: China owns the American generic drug supply chain. Basic thyroid or blood pressure medications might finally be put into pill form in an Indian lab and sold under an Indian brand like Cipla. But the organic compounds, or key starting materials, mostly come from China. China is also a key supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). As a result, the U.S. generic drug market is a wholly owned subsidiary of Chinese and Indian drug makers.
“We are losing badly on pharmaceuticals,” said Michael Kuiken, a commissioner for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Via: CNBC:
Smartphones and computers are among many tech devices and components that will be exempted from reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, according to new guidance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The guidance, issued late Friday evening, comes after Trump earlier this month imposed 145% tariffs on products from China, a move that threatened to take a toll on tech giants like Apple
, which makes iPhones and most of its other products in China.
The guidance also includes exclusions for other electronic devices and components, including semiconductors, solar cells, flat panel TV displays, flash drives, and memory cards.
These products could eventually be subject to additional duties, but they are likely to be far lower than the 145% rate that Trump had imposed on goods from China.
The exemptions are a win for tech companies like Apple, which makes the majority of its products in China. The country manufactures 80% of iPads and more than half of Mac computers produced, according to Evercore ISI.
Sodium Ion Batteries
April 11th, 2025These look interesting for stationary storage.
Via: Undecided:
Gabbard: “Electronic Voting Systems Have Been Vulnerable to Hackers for a Very Long Time”
April 11th, 2025It does get exhausting, decade after decade.
Via: Modernity News:
National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard made a startling revelation during an open cabinet meeting Wednesday, announcing that she has evidence that electronic voting machines have been tampered with to manipulate the results of past US elections.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard stated.
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time,” she continued.
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Gabbard emphasised that the evidence shows that machines are “vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast.”
She told President Trump that the finding “further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections.”
Siemens Executive, Wife and Children Killed in Hudson River Helicopter Crash
April 11th, 2025The rotor and tail boom detached mid-flight.
Talked to a number of my pilot friends -“This isn’t normal.” What was Siemens CEO Agustin Escobar, working on? pic.twitter.com/blRshCKqAd
— Grant Cardone (@GrantCardone) April 11, 2025
Via: Firstpost:
A family’s sightseeing tour over New York City ended in tragedy after their helicopter crashed into the Hudson River.
The Bell 206 helicopter, run by New York Helicopter Tours, went down on Thursday.
The crash claimed the lives of Agustin Escobar, a senior Spanish executive at tech firm Siemens, his wife Merce Camprubi Montal, and their three children, aged four years, five years and 11 years.
The pilot was also killed in the crash, although his identity has yet to be released.
DoD / DIA Reports Suggest Biden Pentagon Suppressed COVID-19 Origins Investigation
April 11th, 2025Yes, China, China, China, but Fauci and Daszak made it happen.
Via: ZeroHedge:
Released years after the fact, the documents suggest that top military and intelligence officials either ignored or downplayed signs that the coronavirus may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China – raising new questions about transparency and accountability, according to Just the News’ Jerry Dunleavy.
One report, authored by the Defense Department’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness in December 2022 but quietly published online only in recent weeks, confirms that the Pentagon never conducted an investigation into whether U.S. service members may have been infected during the 2019 World Military Games held in Wuhan – a city that would soon become ground zero for the COVID-19 outbreak.
A second report, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) and dated June 2020, asserts that “the molecular biology capabilities of [the Wuhan lab] and genome assessment are consistent with the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus.” The analysis, obtained this week through the Freedom of Information Act by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know, remained classified for nearly five years.
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Yet despite public pledges, senior officials have yet to fully declassify many of the intelligence documents related to the origins of the pandemic.
And then of course there’s Peter Daszak, head of EcoHealth Alliance – which received large sums of NIH funding which were steered to the Wuhan Lab in order to study bat coronavirus. EcoHealth famously proposed a blueprint for creating COVID-19, which DARPA declined to fund – yet here we are.
“Trump Promises $1 Trillion in Defense Spending for Next Year”
April 11th, 2025Imagine my shock.
Via: MilitaryTimes:
President Donald Trump this week unveiled plans for a $1 trillion defense budget next year, a massive increase that he claimed will provide the country with unmatched military strength for years to come.
During a press event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, Trump offered the outline for total defense spending in the fiscal 2026 budget as part of his larger plans for U.S. national security.
“We’re going to be approving a budget, and I’m proud to say, actually, the biggest one we’ve ever done for the military,” he said. “$1 trillion. Nobody has seen anything like it.
“We are getting a very, very powerful military. We have things under order now.”
A $1 trillion defense budget would represent an increase of nearly 12% from current fiscal year spending levels. Trump indicated that at least some of the new spending would come from savings found by cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, although he did not specify any accounts.
China Escalates With 125% Tariff On U.S. Imports
April 11th, 2025I wonder if some sort of kabuki theater is about to take place, complete with fake origin labels and warehouses in lower tariff countries…
Via: ZeroHedge:
Around the close of Hong Kong trading hours, Beijing retaliated against President Trump’s tariffs by hiking levies on U.S. goods to 125%, up from the prior 84%. In a notable shift, the Chinese Communist Party announced it would “no longer respond” to any further tariff increases from Washington.
Lockheed Martin Helendale Radar Cross Section Facility – Night Testing
April 10th, 2025Via: Uncanny Expeditions:
Related: Lockheed Martin Helendale RCS Facility
Apple Airlifts 600 Tons of iPhones from India ‘To Beat’ Trump Tariffs
April 10th, 2025*snort*
"Chinese Children"
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— The Dor Brothers (@thedorbrothers) March 18, 2025
Via: Reuters:
Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump’s tariffs, sources told Reuters.
The details of the push provide an insight into the U.S. smartphone company’s private strategy to navigate around the Trump tariffs and build up inventory of its popular iPhones in the United States, one of its biggest markets.
